sometimes when u.s.-mexican when you're talking to them, and they say i don't care why we are not that important to the united states. is that we don't have a bomb but people in the middle east. i want to go back to being a journalist for a second. we also have one of the premier experts. why should mexico matters much to the united states? >> curious. >> i would say in researching and writing my book and looking very close yet the united states but then also mexico that their shows no other country that affects us as much on a day-to-day basis. so from the food that is on our table to the parts in our cars, to the castling in our tanks come in to the consumers for a product coming to the drug center st., mexico is part of our daily lives. wherever you live in the united states. that is the reality to you may recognize in texas. i'm not one that i hope with more and more people would realize that. i want to ask you one last question. i would open it all to you. i'll turn to you first. the reuse you this,